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In February 2025, Goldman Sachs told clients the US equity market had become a stock-picker’s market: 74% of the typical S&P 500 stock’s return was being driven by company-specific factors rather than macro forces, against a 20-year average of 58%, and the bank expected that micro-driven environment to persist. Within weeks, sweeping tariff announcements had...
Date: 23 June 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Alpha depends on more than models, talent and execution. It depends on the quality, consistency and timeliness of the data behind every investment decision. Many hedge funds still operate with fragmented datasets, inconsistent identifiers and manual reconciliation processes that…
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AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied…
In February 2025, Goldman Sachs told clients the US equity market had become a stock-picker’s market: 74% of the typical S&P 500 stock’s return was being driven by company-specific factors rather than macro forces, against a 20-year average of 58%, and the bank expected that micro-driven environment to persist. Within weeks, sweeping tariff announcements had...
The relative novelty of artificial intelligence use within financial services has been highlighted in a global study of the technology’s adoption, with many data challenges remaining and blind spots in security still widespread. While the 2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance found firms were eager to integrate...
Broadridge’s recent announcement that its agentic AI is live in production across more than 40 clients signals a move from capability disclosure to commercial commitment. The firm is now offering two consumption models: a managed services arrangement where Broadridge runs operations end-to-end with the agentic layer on top, and a standalone deployment of the same...
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...
In an era of escalating regulatory pressure, financial institutions can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to transform compliance from a cost burden into a strategic competitive advantage. These technologies, applied to sophisticated monitoring systems, generate structured, high-quality data at scale, converting what was once a static compliance archive into a source...
The buy-side trading desk of the future is asset-agnostic and AI-augmented. The defining characteristic is an architecture where clean, joined-up workflows across all products allow an agentic overlay to function reliably. For investment firms, the priority is to establish these common foundational layers now; firms that remain trapped in siloed, asset-specific stacks will find that...
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to...
Marathon Asset Management, an equity manager based in London, consolidated its investment infrastructure on SimCorp One to retire legacy systems and establish a single data layer across the firm.The move extends a partnership that began in 2010, which replaces multiple vendor platforms with an integrated platform to automate processes across the investment lifecycle.The consolidation aims…
GoldenSource has appointed Jesper Cordes to the newly created chief customer officer role, in which he will lead global account management and customer success functions for the financial data management platform provider.Cordes previously worked at Enfusion as managing director of client services and spent 25 years at SimCorp, where he created and led the data…
Trading technology provider Gold-i has integrated Derive.xyz, the largest on-chain options exchange, into its multi-asset liquidity management and distribution platform, MatrixNET. The move marks Gold-i’s second decentralised finance (DeFi) integration, following its recent partnership with the perpetual futures and spot trading platform Hyperliquid. The integration enables Gold-i’s institutional client base—including brokers, proprietary trading firms, and…
Bloomberg has launched Options IOI, a price monitoring tool engineered to help equity derivatives investors manage pricing information overload and streamline liquidity screening. The solution utilises Bloomberg’s natural language processing (NLP), which is specifically calibrated for the derivatives markets, to automatically detect indications of interest (IOIs) within a user’s Instant Bloomberg (IB) chat rooms and…
SmartStream has announced the launch of Smart Agents, an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution purpose-built for financial institutions and regulated environments. Natively integrated with Smart Reconciliations, the system is designed to streamline bank operations and can be deployed immediately without requiring modifications to a client’s existing infrastructure. The technology has already been validated through successful…
ACA Group has appointed Trey Loughran as chief executive officer and member of the board, as the governance, risk and compliance solutions provider prepares for its next phase with Genstar Capital as lead investor. Loughran succeeds Patrick Olson, who became CEO in May 2023. Olson will move into the role of vice chairman, where he…
EquiLend has entered a strategic partnership with Delta Capita to expand implementation support for EquiLend Spire, its securities finance platform. The arrangement gives EquiLend additional delivery capacity as adoption of Spire grows across the securities finance market. Delta Capita will act as an implementation partner for new client onboarding and platform upgrades, working within EquiLend’s…
Global fintech provider Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced an upgrade to its NYFIX platform, allowing clients to trade overnight U.S. equities. This capability is delivered through a new integration with institutional brokerage firm CAPIS and access to the Blue Ocean Alternative Trading System (ATS). The collaboration provides broker-dealers and institutional investors with extended-hours liquidity across…
Financial data and analytics provider BMLL has welcomed proprietary trading firm Five Rings to its Client Product Advisory Board (CPAB). The New York-based firm will contribute its technological and market structure expertise to help shape BMLL’s future product roadmap, supporting the board’s mission to elevate historical market data standards across the industry. Five Rings utilizes…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have announced a partnership to enable the tokenization of assets custodied by The Depository Trust Company (DTC) on the Stellar network. This collaboration follows an SEC No-Action Letter received in December 2025, which authorized DTC to implement a new service for digital…
Duco has launched an agentic operations platform for post-trade workflows.The platform relies on an engine that processes 20 billion transactions monthly for more than 200 clients, the financial services data automation provider said. Ten firms are using the autonomous agents in production, benefiting from a decrease in the time required to build a new reconciliation…
Smartstream, the data solutions provider for global financial institutions, has announced that the National Bank of Greece (NBG) in Cyprus has successfully deployed its AI-enabled reconciliation solution, Air. The bank has implemented Air’s Cash module to consolidate four separate legacy reconciliation systems used for Instant, Cash, SEPA, and Nostro transactions into a single platform. Prior…
Avelacom, the ultra-low latency connectivity and infrastructure provider, has launched a direct network route between Bangkok and Tokyo. By optimizing the terrestrial fibre segment, the company has established a more direct path between Thailand and Japan, achieving a round-trip delay (RTD) of less than 65 milliseconds. The new route specifically supports low-latency connectivity between the…
Pacer Advisors has successfully implemented Bloomberg’s multi-asset order and execution management solutions (OEMSs) to automate its investment workflow. The integration includes Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) alongside EMSX, its multi-asset execution management system. This setup streamlines Pacer’s position management, trade execution, and compliance processes. As part of the deployment, Bloomberg introduced the Rule Builder…
Shield has added two capabilities to its communications surveillance and archiving platform, aiming to help compliance teams improve alert review efficiency while giving senior leaders clearer evidence of surveillance performance. The updates include Shield Insights, a premium analytics layer for compliance operations, and a redesigned reviewer experience that Shield says can reduce alert review time…
Capital markets data and analytics provider BMLL has appointed Michael Chiappinelli as Chief Revenue Officer. Based in the United States, Chiappinelli will lead the company’s international commercial strategy and global sales function, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Paul Humphrey as part of the executive management team. His appointment follows the company’s acquisition by Nordic…
Eventus, provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced two major additions to its leadership team. Eric Litz has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Sarah-Jane McColl joins as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Both executives report directly to CEO Cameron Routh as part of the company’s focus on enhancing client compliance…
End-to-end regulatory operating system FinregE has appointed Paul Lyon as chief marketing and communications officer, creating a new executive role as the company looks to sharpen its market positioning during a period of growth. Based in London, Lyon will report to Rohini Gupta, chief executive officer, and lead FinregE’s communications, analyst relations, brand, marketing and…
Corlytics has appointed Lisa Miles-Heal as chief executive officer, effective June, as the Verdane-backed regulatory intelligence firm prepares for its next phase of international growth. Miles-Heal brings nearly two decades of executive experience in technology-led businesses. Most recently, she oversaw the transition of accounting compliance company Silverfin from a founder-led business into a Visma group…
Galytix, an AI firm for financial institutions, has hired former Quantexa leader Roshni Patel as chief growth officer, charged with accelerating global expansion. Patel previously worked at Quantexa as global head of risk solutions, following more than 20 years at KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group and Moody’s Analytics. As chief growth officer, he will manage global…
Kalshi has appointed Sudhir Jain as chief compliance officer and head of regulatory affairs, adding derivatives-market supervisory experience as the prediction-market operator expands its institutional ambitions and faces a more contested regulatory environment. Jain joins from Patomak Global Partners, where he worked on derivatives, compliance and risk-management advisory matters after five years at the National…
Muinmos has appointed financial services entrepreneur Paul Ford as an investor and advisor to the Board, adding operational risk, RegTech and scaling experience as the firm looks to build out its AI-led compliance capabilities. Ford brings more than 25 years’ financial services and operational experience. He was Founder and CEO of Acin, the London-based RegTech…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the State of Wisconsin after the state brought civil actions against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood and Coinbase over prediction market activity. The action, filed on 28 April 2026, extends a widening federal-state dispute over the regulatory treatment of event contracts. The CFTC argues that Congress gave the…
FIS is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI into banking operations, starting with a Financial Crimes AI Agent designed to support anti-money laundering investigations. The agent is intended to assemble evidence from bank systems, evaluate activity against known typologies and surface higher-risk cases for investigator review, with BMO and Amalgamated Bank among the first…
Eventus has appointed Cameron Routh as chief executive officer, placing a financial technology executive with more than two decades of experience in software and data businesses at the head of the trade surveillance and financial risk technology provider. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who has led Eventus for 11 years and overseen the development of…
Eventus, a global provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has announced the appointment of Cameron Routh as its new Chief Executive Officer. The transition follows a majority investment in the company by Terminus Capital Partners (TCP), a private equity firm specialising in B2B AI and software. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who led…
Zema Global, the data and analytics provider for the energy, commodities, and financial sectors, has announced three senior executive appointments to its leadership team. Tina Morris joins as Chief Operating Officer to oversee operational excellence and the integration of AI-driven efficiencies. Frederick Winston has been appointed Chief Financial Officer to manage strategic scaling, while Javed…
Xceptor has appointed former Pershing and Vanguard leader Sareena Dalla Brookshire to the newly created position of chief product officer to help the capital markets data automation specialist advance its artificial intelligence product programme. Dalla Brookshire, who has almost two decades of experience working in capital markets, is based in New York and will focus…
SOLVE, a provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income markets, has promoted Michael Pellerito to the role of Senior Vice President of Innovation. This appointment underscores the company’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) into its product roadmap. Pellerito is tasked with accelerating the development of AI-driven capabilities to…
BMLL, the independent provider of historical market data and analytics, has announced a series of strategic senior appointments across its commercial and technical departments. These hires follow the company’s acquisition by Nordic Capital in October 2025 and are intended to scale global operations and accelerate expansion across equities, ETFs, and futures markets. The leadership team…
We are thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2026 A-Team Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate successful projects within financial institutions (both with vendor support and without) across the financial enterprise.
Congratulations go out to this year’s RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 winners. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
Voting in the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA is now closed. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
